Sick

I started feeling sick last night and went to bed early. I was hoping it was nothing major and that I'd be feeling better when I got up this morning to go to class, but no such luck. I ended up sleeping around 11 hours or so and also slept right through my radio which I had set to come on at 11:00am. As such, I missed my ENG 450 class this afternoon, which sucks because a) it only meets once a week on Fridays and b) it has actually been an interesting class to attend so it's annoying to have missed it. I also will be missing my GAM class lecture today as well, which starts in about 10 minutes or so.

Hopefully, whatever this is will be gone by Monday. It seems to be one of those stomach things that just kind of hit out of the blue and then are gone a day or two later. I can't think of anything in particular that I would have eaten lately that could have caused it, but I dunno.

Be careful what you post publicly

Okay, here's something that's kind of freaky, but cool at the same time.

You know that last post I made about some bugs being in Universe at War? Well, when I checked my email just now, I noticed that I had received a friendly email from one of the guys at Petroglyph. He said that he had seen that LJ post as well as the previous one, and he was curious as to what bugs I'd encountered.

Needless to say, I was totally not expecting this, but I've emailed him back with as detailed a report as I could about what I'd seen. I think it's really awesome that they care enough to find little things like this and then follow up on them.

Also, this is something of a cautionary tale to be careful about what you say in your blogs and such, because you just don't know who's going to be reading them. ^^;;; I mean, I already knew that to be the case, and those of us at DigiPen have of course been warned about it by our GAM teachers and such, which is why I try to not go too overboard with crap in my LJ that I wouldn't want to be seen in public anyway, just in case a potential employer stumbles across it or whatever. But, even so, this still kind of took me by surprise. At least it was a pleasant surprise, in this case, and at least I hadn't been caught out doing something completely retarded like that one former Nintendo employee.

Even so, I still feel a bit guilty about that last post now. I mean, every game is going to have bugs, after all, but I guess I was just a bit more sensitive to it in this case because it was a game that I personally had done testing for, and the first really big game. And, to be fair, the one bug that I'd seen that was an old one was a bug that also tended to be rather rare in occurrence and, worse, seemed to happen seemingly at random with no fixed repro steps. Bugs like that, I know from my own experience, are a bitch to find, let alone fix.

To put it plainly, Universe at War is a kick-ass game. Period. End of Line. No, I'm not just saying that because I was "forced" to play it for eight hours a day 5 days a week for two or three months over the summer. If anything, it's still amazing to me even now that I was getting paid to play such a game, because (aside from the fact that I had to eat and pay bills and such) I'd have been content to play it for free, or to pay to play it as I did when I bought it the other day, of course. ^_^ Seriously, Petroglyph is made up of a lot of the old Westwood guys, and if you like Command and Conquer, or if you like RTS games in general, I'd highly recommend this game.

Hell, the music alone is worth the price of admission. Frank Klepacki is a god.